The Firefighting Skill improves the crew member's ability to put out a fire, should a vehicle ever be unlucky enough to be in such a situation. The Firefighting Skill takes effect immediately when the vehicle catches fire. The higher the Training Level for this Skill, the faster a fire is put out and the less the amount of damage per second the fire does to the vehicle before it is extinguished. The Firefighting Skill does NOT reduce the chances of a vehicle catching on fire in the first place. The Firefighting Skill is a common Skill which each one of the crew members on a single vehicle may acquire. The effective Firefighting Skill Training Level is averaged across the entire crew. If only one crewman in a crew of 4 has this Skill at 80% Training Level then the effectiveness upon the vehicle's fire fighting performance is (80+0+0+0)/4 or 20%.

Firefighting Skills are more useful for large vehicles that can stand to take some damage before being utterly destroyed, but purchasing the player controlled and consumable Manual or Automatic Fire Extinguisher is generally more effective in preventing fire from spreading to other modules or destroying the vehicle.

Are the Manual and Automatic fire extinguishers reusable in a match like the repair kits and med-packs? If so, do they have a reduced "cool-down" period since, by their own use, they have already "cooled" things down?

Are the Manual and Automatic fire extinguishers reusable in a match like the repair kits and med-packs? If so, do they have a reduced "cool-down" period since, by their own use, they have already "cooled" things down?

is it just me, or is this skill (fire fighting) one of the most useless skills in the game?

I mean, you can literally avoid this problem by having a fire extinguisher, or an automatic one, on your tank.

No need to waste time and a skill slot on a skill that will be useful maybe once every 30 to 60 games at worst.

The biggest benefit to the skill, and to a slightly lesser extent, preventative maintenance, is less risk when dropping the fire extinguisher for food. Still probably not worth it early in a crewman's training, though.

The Firefighting Skill improves the crew member's ability to put out a fire, should a vehicle ever be unlucky enough to be in such a situation. The Firefighting Skill takes effect immediately when the vehicle catches fire. The higher the Training Level for this Skill, the faster a fire is put out and the less the amount of damage per second the fire does to the vehicle before it is extinguished. The Firefighting Skill does NOT reduce the chances of a vehicle catching on fire in the first place. The Firefighting Skill is a common Skill which each one of the crew members on a single vehicle may acquire. The effective Firefighting Skill Training Level is averaged across the entire crew. If only one crewman in a crew of 4 has this Skill at 80% Training Level then the effectiveness upon the vehicle's fire fighting performance is (80+0+0+0)/4 or 20%.

Firefighting Skills are more useful for large vehicles that can stand to take some damage before being utterly destroyed, but purchasing the player controlled and consumable Manual or Automatic Fire Extinguisher is generally more effective in preventing fire from spreading to other modules or destroying the vehicle.

that doesn't tell me anything, how much damage will you take with a full fire fighting crew? how many ticks of fire damage ?